Comments on: Cleopas, Why You Should Know Him

By: Lenny Hoy

Lenny Hoy — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:51:07 +0000

Thanks for this overview of Cleopas. I am well and duly informed!

I have a deep passion for this passage. With it God opened my unbelieving eyes and my cold and cynical heart to the beauty and power of His Word. I won’t go into the particulars of that transformative morning but I would like to add this, this perhaps subjective response of the passage.

Years ago, when I recovered my senses after reading and rereading this passage in unexpected and unstoppable tears, one of the thoughts I could not shake was that there was a reason why one disciple has no name: the blank space left room into which God poured my heart. For even now, I cannot read this passage and not again walk that very road with Cleopas and our risen Lord.

Don’t take this too seriously, my perhaps too-subjectve reaction to the story, but even the passage of over forty years does not dull to joy I take in rereading it yet again.

That Saturday morning in Perry, Maine, God let me walk in another man’s shoes. It remains a gift I treasure beyond measure.

By: clifford Stevens

clifford Stevens — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:50:30 +0000

The real mystery is not Cleopos, but his wife Mary. Is she the sister of Mary, the Mother of Jesus? But how can you have two Marys in the same family? I believe that the sister of the mother was not named Mary, but that a semicolon has to be put after the phrase “his mother’s sister, and that the name Mary indicates a different person from the “his mother’s sister”. It is also possible that the other person with Cleopos enroute to Emmaus was his son, Simon, who later became the second Christian of the Jerusalem Christians.

Father Clifford Stevens
Boys Town, Nebraska

By: David Jesse

David Jesse — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:00:33 +0000

Thanks for the great blog posting. I’ve never before heard of the connections to Cleopas and extra-Biblical literature. Very interesting. I look forward to future posts.